steve harrington, superintendent, sonoma county schools. >> thank you. i'm also here on behalf of the professional teaching community . and before i make my opening comments, on behalf of the teachers in sonoma county, we wish to honor and express our respect for the students, teachers, administrators, and psychologists who lost their lives at sandy hook elementary school on december 14, 2012. we remember these young children who died too soon. we take our role to educate the students in sonoma county schools seriously. and i know that all school employees are especially atuned to this issue of school safety and student well-being following this horrific incident. the educators who sacrificed their life at sandy hook did so because they were committed to create a better world through teaching. let us keep their memories alive through our own and their own dedicated work in the sonoma county schools. our students are the hope and the promise for the future. as the county superintendent, i wish to reassure you that every one of our schools within sonoma co